The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-08
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Items of Interest To Play-GOers
From Everywhere.

Sweden.
John Gilbert, the actor, is seven
ty-seven years of age. and has been
on the stage ffty-nine years.
Miss Emma Sidnal, the we'll
known singing soubrette, is married,
and her husband is now a resident of
Sedalia.
-Ruddygore. it is asserted, is a
deli "crib" frfm a comic opera
entitled The Crimson Mask, written
twenty years ago by the late John
Brougham.
Irene Currey is the name of
musical wonder in San Frannisco.
she is only 6 years old, and her per-
formance of piano solos is highly
spoken of.
French people are said to be in
dignant about the Farley Woo" song
IL "Ruddygore," although the satire
is evidently directed against the En-
glish trait of boastfulness.
The "Gdipus noloneus" of Soph.
ocles will be produced at the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, England, in Octo-
Der. The music will he by Charles
ViiIers Stanford. the composer of
"Savonarola" and The Canterbury
Pilgrims
MIR. Boucicault will visit only
five cities next season. He will play
ten weeks in New York, nine weeks
in Boston, five IN Chicago, four in
Philadelphia, and six in San Fran
cisco, and nowhere else. He will not
return to England.
Minnie Hauck has signel con
tracts for an operate tour through
Belgium and Holland, Including
Brussels, Antwerp, La Hague, Am
sterdam, ETC., during the month of
March. She will sing in Carmen,
Nanon, Lohengrim and L'Africaine.
Geo. c. Min, who succeeded
Rev. Robert Laird Collier as rector
of the Unity church, Chicago, and
who abandoned the pulpit and took
to the stage six years ago, having
been an actor all this time. play
his first ST. Louis engagement ut
POpe's theaIer.
-London Dramatic Review: The
Queen is very anxious To see Faust,
and either next month or ia May
there will be private performance at
the Lyceum on Wednesday afternoon
for the exclusive benefit of her Majesty
and any members of the royal family
she may see lit TO invite
May Fortescue, the new English
beauty, and one of the richest dress
ers ON the stage, will he seen at the
Grand In St. LcuiS, Lext week. She
opens in Gretchen and plays Frou
Frou and Metns during her engagement
Miss Fortescue was the social rage in
New York, ami recently in Philadel-
phia Mr. and Mrs. George W. Childs
made success easy aud pronounced by
their Endorsement of her. She cam.
to IBIS country recommended by the
Baroness Bur,iegt-Couts and many
prominent English people.
Marcus Mayer and Miss Fortes-
cue are to be married in June. 1t is
an open secret that the lady develop
ed most thorough attachment for
Mr.. Mayer from the start an attach.
ment' indeed, which Mir. Mayer re.
turns with interest. Mr.. Mayer is to
be congratulated. Miss FOrtescue
(Finney) is a member OF a good, hon
est English numerical family, and
will, beside bringing him a fair share
of the worlds goods, make him a
good wife. The marriage will take
place in Boston, and the happy pair
will then go on a wedding tour TO Cal
iiornia. Miss Fcrtescue was. seen
at Whites, Detroit, last week
The New York Sun says; The
weak point of "Ruddygore" is neither
in the music nor the wurds-both are
good, though not the best their an-
thors can do. The plot is poor, both
weak and involved, and the ending
completely inadequate. A girl who
hesitates between two lovers, and a
man who by curse is doomed every
day to unwi'lingly commit a crime of
some sort, ar the two principal fac
tors in the plot. There is a strong
drain upon the Imagination for The
needs of consistency. "Ru idygore
is interesting, and well wo' tn seeing
as given at the Fifth Avenue. Yet
in view of ;he position already attain
ed by its authors, their fame will gain
by their new venture.
Madam Modjeska has just CON-
- $1,000. IL